Washington Mennonite Church
January 3, 2015
9:30 AM
Advent 2015 – FREEDOM BOUND
The advent season is a time of reflection of how God’s coming in
Jesus releases us from personal, social, and historical chains that bind
us. The theme for this Advent-Epiphany
season is “Freedom Bound.” We live in
the paradox that we are both bound and free, on a march to freedom but
encumbered by the burden and sin we carry; we are carrying the scars of
struggle but living with a new hope.
God’s freedom takes us down pathways of justice, mercy, trust, love,
service and invitation.
EPIPHANY SUNDAY – THE PATH OF INVITATION
The
light Jesus brings into the world challenges and illuminates all the
distinctions between us that we elevate as ultimate goods. For if the light has the power to draw wise
men from afar and overcome barriers of former religious outcasts, what power
does it still have to bring new freedom into our church and the world?
